Summertime ... and the livin' is easy

This was supposed to be at the end. This is us today at the Gorge Visitor's Center. More about that below.

Brock and I took off for the weekend, helped Mom do a little packing and then headed to Bear Lake. On the way we saw some construction and wound our way in Brigham City up to the new temple! It is beautiful!

This was on the way down Logan Canyon into Bear Lake.

Hmmm. This was our motel at Ideal Beach. Brad had warned me that it wasn't much but I said if it was clean, that's all that mattered. The inside has been remodeled and it was quite nice. Everyone up there treated us wonderfully.

This is Brad's view every day. This is the beach right outside the motel and on the resort. Actually this is the bad beach and the good beach is under water. I didn't get pictures of cabana boys Josh and Brad. What a great summer job!

Bryce and Alicia came out for the holiday weekend and we headed up to Dutch John for independence day festivities. After stopping at the car show at Flaming Gorge Resort we headed to the dam to check it out. Ever since I saw the water being released from the dam on Channel 5 news some weeks ago I have wanted to get up there. It was an incredible site. Those are cars parked above the pipes to give you an idea how big they are. There is a video at the end of the post but it didn't work when I tried it. It is a crazy amount of water.

Then as we walked back to the car the rain started slowly, then very hard and just before we got to the car it started to hail. We were going to find a place to fish but it rained some more. The water is so high that the beach we had played on many years ago when my family all came up to the Gorge was no longer there. The water was up to the grass area. So we didn't wait around for the bbq and the fireworks in Dutch John, but headed back to the scrumptious Golden Corral. Oh well, it was a beautiful day anyway.

Blooming cactus at Antelope Flat? at the Gorge.